St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-08-24

the falls of St Anthony, surrounded more
and more densely by an enterprising indus 3
trious and energetic people, till the Twin
Cities are now the rivals in all that consti.
tutes greatness with the proudest cities in
the East. 1t is claimed, and 1 believe it. that
they are just beginning to grow. You may
not have $780, 900 people in St. Paul and
Minneapolis to-day, but you will
have, and more, too, before the statemens
could be proved to be an exaggerations
l rode on the locomotive with your distinS
guished fellow citizen, Hon. Edmund Rice,
in July. 1861, or go, when the first seyen
miles of railroads was opened between ST.
Paul and st. Anthony. Now you are shin
gled all over with railroads, and one of your
citizens, am told, is this year extending his
great line by laying over 800 miles of railway
between the Northern Pacific and the Canada
lines unaided by land grants or subsidies.s
Twin cities threatening to rival your own ar9
springing up, as if by magic, at the head OF
Lake Superior. was there also in 1856 and
1857, when the wildness was almost uns
broken, and have watched their prog1ess;I
Even the great grain trade Of the marvellous
city of Chicago will quail before the coms
merce Of your lake ports very soon.
l would be the last man to disparage the great
state of California, but she became state in'
1S49, when you were organized as a terri
tory. Her gold drew thousands to her; you
were regarded as too far north and too much /
out of the lines Of travel westward to ap!
proach her in greatness, yet it ID
that in all that constitutes your
material greatness you are her equal to-
own a lien upon the soil they cultivate, and
are a prosperous contented people. There
may not be very great wealth i'll few hands,
but there is no poverty, no discomfort, no
communism among you.
1 see by the papers to-day that Canadian
farmers are to be prohibited, if need be, By
the army of England from hauling their prog
duets over railroads they propose to build
with their own money on their own land
into this country. Such policy will
be the beginning Of the end Of
ENGLISH DOMINATION
In Canada. Her ministry may seek to repeat
events at home ought to be needed; if they are
not, the demand for the line of 81 deg
40 min may be heard again as it was forty
years ago, and in louder tones now than il
was then. If we had known one-tenth part
of what we know now, when that
line was demanded, it would have
been 81 deg 40 min or fight sure eneugh.i
AS early as 1903, long before railroads ora
steamships were in existence, Thomas
Jefferson, then president of the, United
States, sent a message to the senate demand1
ing 50, 500 to pay the expenses of an exy
ploring expedition to the Pacific ocean,
saying that the grant might, be based
to regulate commerce, or the power to treat
with Indians. but he wanted the exploration
made because he felt that the highway to
China, Japan and the East Indies would. beg
fore the close of the century, be over this cors
tinent and the Pacific ocean. Mainly through
pie his prophecy is verified and
the trade of these great countries
which has enriched all the nations that have
controlled it is about to fall into your lap,
the cities at the head of the lake and around
theFalls of St.Anthony being the first to cone3
meet the great waterways OF the Eastern COM
tinent with the railways which must
ha fqi
/ beg to assure you that / have too high rey
gard for your kindness and courtesy to say
one word that could be construed into polity
ical suggestion, but the growth and develops,
depends largely on the men of the
Northwest. Cheap transportation extended,
foreign as well as home markets for the
products of our farms and our workshops
are prime necessities to this people, and
every obstacle that can be removed in just
tice and fairness to other interests must b8t
set aside before you can reach the full
measure of your greatness. However, this 1Ss
not the time nor the place to discuss remes
dies.
Besides I know that there are a number Of
Kentuckians here, and either from a desire
to be heard or from the great respect they have
for suggestion said to have been made by
the governor of North Carolina to the govs
ernor of South Carolina they are very much
opposed to long after dinner speeches. GEM
tlemen, again return you my sincere thanks
for your kindness.
SENATOR DAVIS SPEECH.
Senator G. K. Davis responded to the
toast. 1.-The Northwest, the Wonderland
of Progress" saying he did not think
any person who grew up with the
Northwest the proper one to speak of
its progress.
His father and mother would celebrate
their golden wedding next Sunday, havin
come 10 Wisconsin half century ago. Peoj